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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: Austrialia/Europe Lottery <austrialialotto@aol.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:34:43 +0200
Subject: ENDEAVOUR TO CLAIM YOUR PRICE


AUSTRALIA/EUROPE LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
Date: 26/08/2006
Ref: 4758961725
Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: LDNGB2701/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS
OFFICE EMAIL:austrialialotto@aol.de
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the26th of AUGUST - 2006 from the Australian International Lottery programme.Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their-mail addresses Your name was attached to ticke number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002.This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$200,000.00 (DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$8,000,000.00 shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, (Africa office)and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European Representative office in Germany and Spain, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$200,000,.00USD, will be released to you from one of these regional branch office in Spain, and Germany.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE Simply contact our fiducial agent, Dr. Des Walters at austrialialotto@aol.de ---to file for your claim . Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 04TH OCTOBER ,2006 otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards
Dr.Des Walters(co-ordinator)
BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.
General Enquiries
Street Address:
AUSTRALIA/EUROPE LOTTERY LOTTO: House
41977-98 St. Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004
AUSTRALIA.
(Monday to Friday 8am-5pm AEST)
LOTTERY PAYMENT CLAIMS FORM
(To be completed by lottery winners )
Ticket Number:................................................................
Reference Number:.............................................................
Batch Number:..................................................................
Names:.............................................................................
Address:.............................................................................
.............................................................................
Country:.............................................................................
Telephone Numbers:.............................................................................
Fax ( if any):.........................................................................
Email Address:.............................................................................
Birth Date:.............................................................................
Occupation:.............................................................................
Marital Status:.............................................................................

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